[extropy-chat] not to forget teachers' unions

[Al Brooks]

We suffer a financial problem with "migrant" (often PC for illegal) student funding, there's limited funds for educating native American students to begin with, funding education for illegals doesn't help matters. Then too is the problem of teachers' unions; most teachers & their unions do care about students and care about schools, yet they are conflicted as along with limits on funding and the unaccountability associated with funding the education of illegals, teachers also have to concern themselves with their own pension and medical plans. Teachers' medical plans are good and their pensions are frequently excellent (or many teachers would have chosen other careers to begin with). So teachers have to look out for their own interests in an expensive educational system that also looks out for the interests of students who aren't even citizens.
  Also-- how to say this nicely-- some teachers aren't precisely teacher material, a certain percentage of them chose the teaching profession because teaching in a classroom and grading papers is sure a whole lot better than cleaning the deep frying mechanisms at Wendy's and Burger King.
   

 
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